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Army investigator said Green Beret's death was 'negligent homicide' by KBR

 

Published 1/23/2009 at L.A. Times - Politics

But an Army spokesman discounts the correspondence to the family of Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth, who was electrocuted while taking a shower in Iraq. > An Army criminal investigator told the family of a Green Beret who was electrocuted while taking a shower at his base in Baghdad that the soldier's death was a case of "negligent homicide" by military contractor KBR and two of its supervisors. (link)

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